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I was just about to bite your hand off with odds at 1/7 but I see you have edited your post gamble
You can visit me if you like Homer, an armed guard will greet you at the entrance. You’ll be strip searched, washed thoroughly with a weak bleach solution, until you look like Ginge, and after you’ve been masked and gloved up, we can sit down to tea – but there will be no biting of hands
Don’t see why both the Guineas cannot be run on the same day and Epsom have already said that they plan to run the Oaks and Derby on the same day.
South Korea population density 517 per sq. km and 258 deaths.
Anyway, never mind that bollocks, please enjoy this clip of racing’s own Derek Thompson from Accidental Partridge on Twitter:
#AccidentalPartridge pic.twitter.com/ewMQT8pvf6
— Accidental Partridge (@AccidentalP) February 26, 2019
It’s old so you may well have seen it but I only came across it today.
Epsom given the go ahead by the council to fence off the downs for the Derby and Oaks behind closed doors.
Seeing pictures of London’s tube and buses this morning the King George could be doubtful. And that’s the Kempton one.
The Crown Hotel is a salubrious joint that I’d recommend visiting when the races aren’t on. The grub is decent but overpriced and the Guinness a bit flat, which is generally the case in hotels
I haven’t dragged myself up and down the main drag from Town to Town Moor for several years. Could our man in Doncaster, SteveH, report if the rusting sign on those steps on Bennetthorpe stating ‘these steps are temporarily closed’ has been removed yet. A chucklesome sight over the decades
And I do hope the Rockingham Arms hasn’t been gentrified
At least Derek is not saying “I’ll leave that to the judge” when the winner has prevailed by half a length.
@Chestnut
Maybe they will run the full Guineas card over 2 days chestnut which would include along with the 2000 and 1000 Guineas, The Pretty Polly’ Palace House and Jockey Club Stakes .. wondering where the Irish 2000 Guineas stands as was due to take place 23rd May.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Epsom given the go ahead by the council to fence off the downs for the Derby and Oaks behind closed doors.
A dangerous move and it will be interesting to see if there is a legal challenge to the decision.
Closing off common land to allow a commercial enterprise to take place opens up a can of worms.
More pertinently it sets a precedent ……. having allowed this once, what is to stop the racing authorities repeating the same request in future years? That way they could charge admission to The Hill, or get the Downs closed off on their music nights, which they would love to do – they absolutely hate people listening to the concerts for free on The Downs.
Then, when the council says no, the racing authorities can claim precedent.
Oaks and Derby Day’s are the only two days the great unwashed can watch quality live racing at the track for free and anyone who has been on The Hill will tell you what a great atmosphere it is.
In these exceptional circumstances it would be better for the races, (if they have to be run at all – and I’ve yet to see any convincing argument as to why they should be) to be moved to Newmarket – it’s happened before.
The Coronation Cup is already being moved this year and there are plenty of examples of races being moved to different venues because of abandonments.
However I think the discussion will be academic anyway – by July we will be into the second wave and we’ll have, at least, the same restrictions we’ve been living under for the last six weeks.
At the end of the day ALL sport is a total irrelevance compared with a global pandemic.
Given Johnson’s reckless advice to now feel free to drive as far as you like to exercise I think a second peak is much more likely. A chum of mine in Scarborough is dreading this coming weekend, as I feel sure are most residents of other seaside resorts and sundry tourist traps around England
Bayonets fixed at Berwick and Chepstow
Think I wrote elsewhere that if the Knavesmire was cordoned off to enable York to race ‘behind closed doors’ there would be, to put it politely, much grumbling; and as you say, restricting access to common land is fraught with legal problems especially for something so trivial as a sporting event
Will the King George at Kempton on Boxing Day be cancelled? 7 face masks/4 face masks
How will the movement of horses be effected? Can’t imagine a Derby and Oaks without O’Brien saddling half the field!
here you go – interesting stuff re- international runners and how two year old races will be balloted –
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